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Liberals refuse to admit Obama's policies look a lot like Bush's
Jack Hunter
Campaign
For Liberty
Thursday, Nov 12th, 2009
During last year's Republican National Convention,
South Carolina GOP leaders were regularly calling in to talk
radio station WTMA to provide event coverage. On the day they
were supposed to talk to me, I was informed that Republican
Party officials did not wish to speak to Jack Hunter. A denouncer
of big government and all its works, I never saw any reason
to make special exceptions for Republicans, and for my anti-GOP
sins I had become persona non grata.
Today, everyone is denouncing big government. Since Obama's
election, tea party protests have sprung up across the country
and conservatives are now rallying loud and clear against Washington's
spending. But liberal politicians and pundits who are calling
conservative activists "crazy" -- or to borrow MSNBC
host Chris Matthew's phrase, "wing nuts" -- have it
exactly backwards. It was crazy that anyone who might claim
the label "conservative" would also claim to be a
part of George W. Bush's GOP. Today's conservatives haven't
lost their sanity -- they've regained it.
In the meantime, the Left has gone completely nuts. Worshipping
a president who promised "change," liberals continue
to ignore the fact that little has. On foreign policy -- the
Left's primary gripe against Bush -- Obama's war mentality is
remarkably similar to his predecessor. In drawing down in Iraq,
Obama has simply transferred the massive U.S. presence from
Iraq to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, controversial war on terror-era
measures like the Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition, and
warrantless wiretapping remain intact. Notes observant liberal
Noam Chomsky, "As Obama came into office, [former Secretary
of State] Condoleezza Rice predicted he would follow the policies
of Bush's second term, and that is pretty much what happened,
apart from a different rhetorical style."
During the Bush years, conservatives loved to portray the outspoken
antiwar group "Code Pink" as a perfect example of
liberal wackiness. It turns out conservatives were right, but
for reasons even they couldn't have imagined, as the same Code
Pink that so vehemently denounced Bush's war in Iraq now supports
Obama's war in Afghanistan. Writes Antiwar.com's Justin Raimondo:
"Right on time for the somber eighth anniversary of the
Afghanistan war and occupation, Code Pink founder and primary
spokeswoman Medea Benjamin has announced that her organization
-- which made so many headlines and newscasts protesting 'Bush's
war' -- is now 'rethinking' their position on Afghanistan. A
piece in the Christian Science Monitor, which Code Pink is now
strenuously trying to spin, reports that the famous antiwar
group is seriously amending their position after listening to
the views of Afghan women."
Bush administration officials and conservative talk radio made
the case time and again that the U.S. was simply "liberating"
Iraqis from the oppressive hand of Saddam Hussein. At the time,
I can't recall antiwar groups ever considering this argument,
yet in supporting Obama's war in Afghanistan, Code Pink is now
using the logic of Dick Cheney and Sean Hannity to justify American
military intervention in the name of human rights.
But one need not look to the far Left to find liberal lunacy.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham has quickly become the Left's
favorite Republican for both his willingness to compromise with
the Democrats and his attacks on conservatives. Liberals constantly
praise Graham as a "reasonable" Republican, in contrast
to the rest of his party.
Back when Dubya was public enemy No. 1 for the Left, Bush Republicanism
had no better proponent than Graham. Under Bush, Graham was
a big government Republican in all the ways liberals admire
-- expanding Medicare, No Child Left Behind, TARP -- but also
in the one way they allegedly despised, with his unqualified
support for an explicitly neoconservative foreign policy. When
possible Bush successor John McCain was saying that the U.S.
might remain in Iraq for "100 years" or proclaiming
that Americans "were all Georgians now" after the
brief skirmish between Russia and Georgia, immediately injecting
the U.S. into a tense situation, there was Graham at his side,
nodding his head approvingly and enthusiastically. The Left
loved to portray Bush as a "warmonger." If someone
can tell me how Graham's politics differ in the slightest from
Bush and Cheney, I'd love to hear it.
Liberals who note the hypocrisy of the tea partiers who now
protest Obama yet were silent when Bush was expanding government
have a valid point. But on the one-year anniversary of the last
election, Obama Democrats have proven themselves no less hypocritical
than Bush Republicans, particularly on the issue that most defined
the Left during the last administration: foreign policy. Though
few will admit it, liberals who voted for a "change"
from Bush have not gotten it. And like the Republicans before
them, the Democrats' faith in their president will likely continue
to blind them to the fact that they may never get it.
"When the people find they can vote themselves
money, that will herald the end of the republic."
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